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#115 - Best RHYTHM Guitar Exercises!
🕑 Added 2020-09-22 13:00:04 +0000 UTCTime for another lesson my friends, you voted for the best rhythm guitar exercises on the wishlist for September :) Today I'd like to show you one of the coolest concepts for heavy riffs: working with dotted notes and syncopated accents. Don't forget to download your tabs below!
Here are the video play-alongs for this week: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9is83uspaxketjb/AACz9-XUKZoyA5HAL3xGWJNXa?dl=0
Practice concept: Think in the grid of eighth notes and in groups of 3, accent the first note and play two dead notes (exercise one) - then remove the dead notes and only play the accents, the dotted quarter notes would land here (exercise two) - and then you're ready for the riff! I still think in this eighth-note grid when I play it to stay in time and to nail the accents (exercise three).
Hope you have tons of fun with this one :)
Comments
John H
love this one - as I am trying to refine my timing and counting on music - very helpful
Steve Shaw
Another great lesson, Glad to see your patreon subscribers has almost doubled since I subscribed, best money I ever spent on improving everything about my playing. More power to you Bernth.
Lorenzo Sandini
I think we've seen some good examples of polyrhythms in your sweep picking masterclass, and I agree, we could use some more challenges with odd rhythms. I think we've all been blown away by the drum cam of Danny Carey playing Pneuma live, and Axe of Creation has done a nice tutorial about the guitar part, cutting the polyrhythm to little pieces. An absolute delight !
Mart Parve
Special thanks for this! As a relative beginner, I have struggled so much with getting a hang of more complex rhythms, but now toying around with these exercises I really got to some next level of feeling the rhythm. In general, I would really like you to do more rhythm tutorials. Similar lessons for 5/8, 7/8 etc.
David Wendel
Thank you Bernth for the awesome explanation and lesson!
